The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 42

"Now we are here we may as well begin to dig our graves at once, since from this fatal spot no shipwrecked mariner has ever returned."

Who acts: we, fatal spot · What happens: be, begin, dig, shipwreck, return · To what, where: graves, shipwrecked mariner

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fatal spot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 here	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 here	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 may	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 here	advcl
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 begin	cc
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 may	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dig	mark
12	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begin	xcomp
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 graves	nmod:poss
14	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dig	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 dig	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spot	punct
18	since	since	ADP	_	22 spot	case
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 spot	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 spot	det
21	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spot	amod
22	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dig	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 mariner	det
24	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 mariner	amod
25	mariner	mariner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 returned	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 returned	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 returned	advmod
28	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 spot	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we		now	here property	tree rules
2	begin in a quote	present	we not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dig in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	our graves			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Instrument at once=Theme
4	shipwreck in a quote	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	return in a quote	present · perfect · passive	this fatal spot not said here	no shipwrecked mariner	ever		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/42/